Dartoid’s Column

June 29, 2004
Column 162
An American Stallion

Well darts fans, some of you will be pleased to know that the time for carefully crafted ditties about baseball fantasy camps, genius chickens and quarter-ante games of poker is over. This should be especially good news for the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Dick Allix, Gayle Farmer …

June 28, 2004
Column 161
Missed Friends

Blasphemous as it may be, if I am to be honest, each time I head to Las Vegas — for years to the North American Open and lately to the Desert Classic — my first thoughts are not of darts. I can’t help it. Instead, my mind is …

June 27, 2004
Column 160
The Chicken Was A Chicken

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Absolutely no animals were harmed while writing this column, although some chicks and two American presidents may be offended when reading it.

As the Cherry Bomb and Bull City Classics wind down and as darters shuffle about airports in Ft. Lauderdale and Durham, …

June 9, 2004
Column 159
Fantasy Darts Camp!

After showgirls in G-strings, gambling and drinking the night away, when I think of the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic what comes to mind first (well, fourth) is fantasy baseball camp.

On a Saturday afternoon there ain’t a damn thing better then grabbin’ a …

June 1, 2004
Column 158
Still, the First Lady of Darts!

It’s the Little Old Lady… from Pasadeeena…
Go Granny, go Granny, go Granny go
Has a pretty little flower bed of white gardenias
– Jan & Dean, 1964
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I don’t know about you, but if someone were to tell me that the best …

April 1, 2004
Column 156
Dartoid Arrested in Zambia!

URGENT!
This is Mike Broderick I maintain Paul Seigel’s web site – DartoidsWorld.com. I received a call from Paul’s wife, Marylou. Paul and a friend have been arrested in Africa — Zambia. They were caught trying to board a plane with a suitcase full endangered wood …

March 1, 2004
Column 155
Chengdu, China

Fly two hours north from where I threw darts last night and you’ll be shiverin’ in a Mongolian snow drift. Head the same distance due west and you’ll be walkin’ to the board through goat dirt.

Set in the majestic foothills of the towering Himalayas, the original city …

February 1, 2004
Column 154
Pae-por

A famous author once observed…

“The heartland of Southeast Asia has always been on the edges of civilization. The great empires, such as the Pagan in Burma, Sukhothai in Thailand and Angkor in Cambodia, were built in the plains, where rice grows easily and there are trade routes to …

January 1, 2004
Column 153
A Whole Lot of Bits about Something

You never quite know what to expect when you pick up a book about darts.

We’ll, actually you pretty much do. That’s the unfortunate thing.

There is a boring, monotonous, similarity — a predictable, formulaic, uniformity — to many of the darts books …